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The Forgotten Valentine’s Day Post
The best-laid plan: make red velvet cupcakes for valentine’s daybake cupcakes in heart-themed papersdecorate said cupcakes with holiday sprinkles and chocolate heartsuse heart-shaped teacup &…
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An Expensive Burn
I have seen the MacKenzie-Childs products for years and always admired their Courtly Check pattern with the checkerboard black and white, hand-painted squares. However, it…
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Sugar Doilies
I have seen these Snowflake Lace Sugar Doilies for years in the Victorian Trading Co. catalog and decided to see if they were as pretty…
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Scottish Sunday
After a relatively mild day Saturday, a very chilly, but sunny Sunday morning greeted us with a thin glaze of ice on the stream and…
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A Tale of Two Days
Two weeks ago (yes, I’m late on writing this) we had two very rare 70º days here in Maine. Coincidentally, those were the two days…
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Tea and Donuts
Fall is a stressful season for me at work, but before the temperatures turned too chilly I was able to tear myself away from the…
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Fire and Forté
We just “celebrated” the Labor Day holiday weekend. We didn’t go anywhere or do anything spcecial and I was perfectly fine with that. The catalog…

